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The "Forgettable Presidents"

Clevland returns to presidency

Hayes wins presidency

Scandal

Clevland takes the stand

Soldier in office

  • Nov 8, 1892
  • Democrat Grover Cleveland is elected president of the United States, returning to a second term in the White House after four years.
  • Jul 6, 1896-Democrats Nominate William Jennings Bryan
  • The Democratic Party meets in Chicago and nominates William Jennings Bryan as its presidential candidate. The Party Platform calls for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at ratio of 16 to 1.
  • Crédit Mobilier Scandal-The New York Sun reports that Vice-President Schuyler Colfax, and several members of Congress, including future President James Garfield, received what amounted to free stock in return for protecting the Crédit Mobilier, a railroad construction company, from investigation for financial irregularities.
  • 1883- Pendleton Act, introducing an examination system for selecting federal civil servants. Only 10% of all federal appointees are made subject to this process of selection by examination
  • Nov 4, 1884-Cleveland Elected President
  • Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James Blaine and is elected president of the United States.
  • Nov 3, 1868-Grant Elected President
  • Republican Ulysses S. Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour and is elected president of the United States.
  • war hero but was unprepared for public office. He relied heavily on the advice of insiders who were stealing public money. His secretary of war sold Indian land to investors and pocketed public money. His private secretary worked with officials in the Treasury Department to steal money raised from the tax on whiskey.
  • May 2,1877
  • The Electoral Commission established by Congress to investigate the presidential election of 1876—in which disputed returns from Louisiana, South Carolina, Oregon, and Florida have left the outcome undecided—declares that Rutherford B. Hayes is elected president of the United States.
  • Jul 16, 1877
  • Railroad Strike of 1877-Brakemen and firemen from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad walk off the job at Camden Junction, Maryland, initiating a w strike that will shut down miles of track throughout the northeastern United States.

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2005

1872

1868

2010

Harrison wins

William Jennings

Garfield takes the throne

Reelection booms

Industry begins

  • November 5, 1872- Grant reelected
  • 1873 Mark twain publishes The Gilded Age
  • Panic of 1973- Financial panic which led to economic depression lasting until 1979
  • Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone

Jan 10, 1870-Rockefeller Incorporates Standard Oil

  • John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company is incorporated in Ohio. Rockefeller has been active in the oil business since 1863. Standard Oil was first formed as a partnership in 1868.
  • 1872-Carnegie Imitates Bessemer Steel
  • After visiting Henry Bessemer's steel plant in England, and noting the demand in Britain for steel rails, Andrew Carnegie returns to America intent on expanding his steel business.
  • Nov 2, 1880-James Garfield Elected President
  • Republican James Garfield is elected president of the United States.
  • 1881-McCormick's Mechanical Harvester,Cyrus McCormick introduces a mechanical harvester and twine binder, one of several new technologies increasing agricultural productivity.
  • Jul 2, 1881-Garfield Assassination
  • President James Garfield is shot by Charles Guiteau, a deranged federal office-seeker. Garfield will die on 19 September. Vice-President Chester A. Arthur will be sworn is as president one day later.
  • Nov 6, 1888-Harrison Loses Popular Vote, Wins Presidency
  • Republican Benjamin Harrison is elected president of the United States despite polling almost 100,000 fewer votes nationwide than Democrat, Grover Cleveland.
  • Jul 2, 1892
  • Populist Party Convention-Thirteen hundred delegates gather at Omaha, Nebraska to select a presidential nominee and draft a platform for the recently formed Populist Party. James Weaver is selected as the party's presidential candidate; James G. Field is named the party's vice-presidential candidate.
  • Jul 6, 1896-Democrats Nominate William Jennings Bryan
  • Populists Endorse William Jennings Bryan
  • The Populist Party, meeting at St. Louis, nominates Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan as its candidate for the presidency, primarily because of his support for the free coinage of silver.
  • Nov 3, 1896-William McKinley Elected President
  • Apr 1898
  • Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders
  • Theodore Roosevelt resigns as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in order to form a volunteer cavalry regiment to fight in Cuba after the United States declares war against Spain.
  • McKinley Assassination
  • Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as president
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